I have a whack of rail, but I am looking for idea to display continuous welded rail on the side at certain spots around the layout.  The only way I know is to solder two sections of rail with a joiner, but then it does not look like the real thing. Does anyone have any ideas? My other thought, that I have seen out there, is to use fishplates (joiners) that the rail used and CA them toghther

Just before we started heading back from Maine to California, I discovered that UP 844 was heading west to celebrate the centennial of New Mexico and Arizona statehood. Since I-40 is our normal route, it was a no brainer to see if we could see some of the action between Tucumcari, NM and Santa Rosa, NM as the old SP line parallels I-40 for about 60 miles.

Couldn't have asked for better conditions. Lighting was superb (although I can't say as much for conditions between Santa Rosa and Albuquerque where we got high winds and snow).

Hello!

I recently started a blog/website (http://h0traindepot.com/) dedicated to H0 railroad modeling. I'm preparing a post about various discussion forums about H0 train models. I decided, that the best route would be to actually register and say "hello" on each forum I plan to write about - I guess it's obvious, but still I'm outlining my motivations.

So - HELLO, I'm new here :)

That said, I'm curious...

I live in the UK. I am currently starting a model railroad, I have picked the C & O in the Appalanchians to model.